Macroeconomic uncertainty and credit default swap spreads

Christopher Baum and Chi Wan

Applied Financial Economics, 2010, vol. 20, issue 15, 1163-1171

Abstract: This article empirically investigates the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on the spreads of individual firms' Credit Default Swaps (CDSs). While the existing literature acknowledges the importance of the levels of macroeconomic factors in determining CDS spreads, we find that the second moments of these factors-macroeconomic uncertainty-have significant explanatory power over and above that of traditional macroeconomic factors such as the risk-free rate and the Treasury term spread.

Date: 2010
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